Kaera Utsumi
Master's Student
Kaera.utsumi@ku.edu
Primary office:
BI, Dyche Hall
Advisor: Jorge Soberon
Research Interests: Animal Behavior, Movement and Spatial Ecology, Herpetology
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Education
- B.S. in Biology University of California Berkeley
Presentations
- Mcalpine-Bellis EA, Garrison GE, Gilbert Smith S, Klein JRV, Utsumi K, Diamond KM, Eifler D, Eifler M. Where to find the best bugs: A study of habitat use among lizard species with different movement strategies. Annual Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA. January 2018. Poster presentation.
- Utsumi K, Hunt N, Full R. Squirrel Parkour: When to leap from a compliant rod? Biology Scholars Program Undergraduate Research Symposium, Berkeley, CA, USA. May 2017. Poster presentation.
Grants:
- Utsumi, K. Biology Scholars Program: Program for Early Researchers Stipend, University of California Berkeley. $4,000. 2016-2017. Funded
- Utsumi, K. Early Career Grant, National Geographic Society. $6,500. 2018. Not Funded.
